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Chapter 275 Flamingo-2 Game Console

The corners of Li Zetian's mouth rose slightly, and he laughed, "Very good! Dongfang Yuqin, let people speak out. If Bandai does not accept the acquisition, then Bandai's games will not enter the Flamingo game platform!!"

Threats and lures, I don't believe that Bandai will not give in!

Dongfang Yuqin nodded, staring brightly, and said: "Mr. Li, are you sure you want to do this? Bandai's games are mainly based on the company's animation characters, and there are some loyal gamers! For example, the Gundam series of games ..." After a pause, Dongfang Yuqin continued, "Nintendo has been suppressed at the moment, if Bandai is forced to switch to their side, it may give Nintendo a chance to resist!"

Li Zetian frowned and remained silent when he heard the words. After a while, he said thoughtfully: "Well, what you said is also right, you can't lose the big because of small things. Well, Bandai is lucky. Wait until Nintendo completely collapses, and then you will be able to deal with it again." Bandai will do it!"

"En!" Dongfang Yuqin smiled and agreed.

Leaving Bandai alone for the time being, Li Zetian urged the acquisition team to go all out to acquire Haibaibao first.

Ten days later, Haizibao agreed to Li Zetian's acquisition, and invested 10 million US dollars in Haizibao in the capacity of Disney and Flamingo, and Haizibao sold a total of 6% of the shares!
In fact, Haizibao company is also trying to win over Disney and Flamingo. With the support of these two companies, Haizibao's product line will be much richer.

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Flamingo’s second-generation game console has been developed for 6 years. In fact, preparations have begun since the development of Flamingo-1 was completed.

After 6 years of hard work, the development time of the Flamingo-2 game console is quite long, but because of such a long period of development, the Flamingo-2 game console is a classic beyond the times.

The appearance of the Flamingo-2 game console roughly imitates Sony's PlayStation, with little difference except that it is slightly larger.Of course, there is a big difference in performance. After all, PlayStation is a 32-bit machine with great 3D graphics, and it was released in 1994, ten years earlier than Flamingo-2.Moreover, the Flamingo-2 uses an Intel8086 microprocessor, which is only a 16-bit processor, and the memory and resolution are much smaller.However, at the moment, it is undoubtedly the most advanced home game console.

The development environment of the Flamingo-2 game console uses C language for the first time, because C language has a rich function library, which is conducive to game development.

As for the price of Flamingo-2, it is more expensive, priced at 250 US dollars, after all, the hardware configuration of this game console is very high.In fact, it costs close to $200 to manufacture, and retailers have to make money, so Flamingo barely makes money on the hardware.Li Zetian was worried that there would be accidents during the transition from game cartridges to game CDs. To be conservative, he chose to sell at a "low price" and occupy the market first!
At 11 o'clock in the afternoon on November 15th, Flamingo held a product launch conference, and the Flamingo-2 game console made its debut at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which shocked the audience and won applause!

The audience watching the press conference in front of the TV was also amazed by the Flamingo-2. The CD game console does look cooler and more dazzling than the cassette game console, with a sense of fashion and technology, which immediately fascinated gamers!
Along with the release of the new machine, in addition to the sequels of classic games, there are more interesting new games, such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Squirrel Wars, Rockman, Bomberman, MapleStory, Street Fighter, etc., which are dizzying , I feel itchy, I wish I could play it now.

The Flamingo-2 game console was unexpectedly popular. As soon as the press conference ended, countless gamers called the company one after another, wanting to pre-order one.

However, the official release time is scheduled for December 1984, 12, during the Christmas shopping promotion period.

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At this moment, a cloud of gloom hangs over Nintendo.

They also saw Flamingo-2 and the released game, and they couldn't help being deeply shocked.

The brand-new innovative design and super machine performance completely overwhelm the FC.

The FC game machine can't even do with the Flamingo-1. At this time, the Flamingo-2 is about to be released, and FC will collapse completely.

"President Hiroshi Yamauchi, since Flamingo's product launch, FC game consoles and game cassettes on this platform are no longer available! Countless players are looking forward to the arrival of December 12st..." an employee With a bitter face, he sighed.

In the past year, the total sales volume of FC has reached 7.5 units. Because the price is too low, Nintendo can't make any money at all, and the FC in the warehouse is piled up like a mountain and cannot be sold.In addition, the sales of game cassettes are not optimistic.Coupled with the company's various expenses, Nintendo has lost at least [-] million U.S. dollars this year!
This is undoubtedly a serious blow to Nintendo, which is not powerful.

Now, Nintendo's financial statements have not yet been released. As a listed company, if this happens, the stock price will definitely fall like a dog.

Hiroshi Yamauchi really wants to cry now, he never expected that Flamingo Company developed such a powerful game console in such a short period of time, "Flamingo Company may have been developing the Flamingo-2 game console for a long time. It's gone..." Yamauchi Pu guessed, at this moment, he regretted it in his heart.

"Although the performance of FC's game console is stronger than Flamingo-1, it is weak compared to Flamingo-2. Right now, it seems that the development of FC is in vain. Nintendo's efforts for many years have all been in vain!"

After finishing speaking, Hiroshi Yamauchi drank the glass of sake on the table in one gulp, his mouth full of bitterness.

"President, is the FC game machine business still persistent? Staff salaries, factories, stores, warehouses, etc. are all a lot of expenses... FC doesn't make money, it can't make ends meet!"

Hiroshi Yamauchi frowned deeply, and it was difficult to make a decision at the moment. He really wanted to give up FC, but he was extremely reluctant.

"Let's look at the sales of Flamingo-2 first, then make a decision on December 12st!" Hiroshi Yamauchi said.

"Okay, President."

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Half a month passed by in a flash.

On December 12st, Flamingo-1 was released globally.

Before dawn, there was a vast white mist, and there were long queues at the entrances of shops all over the world, some places even exceeded 100 meters. That scene was really shocking!I heard that some people came to line up at night...

"Can you come sooner?" A player said in an interview with a reporter, "According to Chronos Li's urination, there must be a hunger sale again. The number of Flamingo-2 is not much. If you don't buy it now, it will be a long time in the future." Can't get it for a while! It's going to drive me crazy if I can't play the Flamingo-2! So, I'd rather come to the line early and buy the next console! Hehe, I'll also buy the Flamingo that I only got this year Bird-1 and game cassettes are also brought. Flamingo promises that as long as the old machine has no problems, it can be traded in for an extra $150, and 5 game cassettes can be exchanged for 1 game CD..."

(End of this chapter)